Monthly Archives: January 2016

For the past weeks, the terms atop the social dream language board involves three men: Donald Trump, David Bowie, and Alan Rickman.

Bowie and Rickman are the latest examples of celebrities (or even the characters they portrayed) making appearances in numerous dreams across the world following their death. I call this the “Robin Williams” effect, as his was the first celebrity death after I started collecting social dream data.

As well, there is an incessant and truly fascinating stream of dreams involving Donald Trump — see the latest here.

The Trump trend is not just interesting, it is also hugely statistically significant. Trump dreams, in fact, are currently more common than Obama dreams. I’ve had my eye on the Trump trend since last August, but here is a chart showing how that initial spike has become a sustained trend:

many dreams of trump (more than obama, even!)

Interestingly, there are many such dreams that also involve Bernie Sanders:

I had a dream that I was protecting Donald Trump from a mob of Bernie Sanders supporters. What is my subconscious telling me? 😅

I posted just two weeks ago about an uptick in the number of dreams about “guns” and “America”:

Two interesting and perhaps co-related trends: dreams of “America” and “guns” are both up over 300% over the last year.

Today, as Obama announces that he will bypass Congress and unveil new gun control measures over the next few days, we might be getting an idea of why. Indeed, take a deeper look; we saw an unbelievable number of dreams specifically about gun control, like the following just in December:

I dreamed all the gun control folks got sick of all the inaction, and organized an armed attack on the NRA. With assault rifles.

The degree to which this is resonating in the collective unconscious leads me to believe that there may be more to this than some background checks, and I hope it doesn’t have to do with the situation on Hammond Ranch in Oregon.

I often refer to the fact that reality is a mass shared dream. Today, I am pleased to share this interview with Dr. Rory Mac Sweeney on this idea, which he covers in his book The Paradox of Lucid Dreaming – A Metaphysical Theory of Mind: